Max's 1st professional haircut

Max got his 1st professional haircut. I tried to cut it myself, but after about an hour of trying with very little progress I decided to leave this one to the professionals. I told Max if he was good he could get a donut. I'm not sure he really deserved the donut. It was a bit of a nightmare...getting his hair cut. Mommy needed the donut after that trauma so he got one too.

Aunt Alayna stayed for a while after everyone left to help me out. It was SO nice to have her here!! I'm sure she was so ready to get back home, and away from all the craziness, but we sure loved having her here!!

Carving pumpkins

Colton and Kirsten loved carving pumpkins but max wouldn't touch it. So daddy made one for him that looked like Mike Wazowski.

Kirsten decided a few months ago that she wanted to be Layla from Teen Beach Movie. She's a biker in the movie.

The kids getting ready to go trick-or-treating.

Grammy came to see us too.

The weather was absolutely beautiful.

The kids ran from house to house in our neighborhood. Max was so adorable running along behind the big kids. After about 5 houses, Colton was ready to go home. We got him to go to a few more before everyone was done. The kids got very little candy, but they didn't care. I guess they don't take after their mother who would not go home until the pillow case was filled!

I think Max ate all his candy that night.

Halloween

Kirsten and Colton got to wear their costumes to school on Halloween. My mom made this cute wonder woman costume for Kirsten, which she loved. She wore it for dance the night before too.
Colton had to be an engineer, not a conductor, an engineer. When Max saw brother and sister wearing their costumes he wanted to join in too.
Kirsten's school had a party and a costume parade. Colton got to trick or treat to the different classrooms. He was excited because daddy was handing out candy and got to hang out with him for his party afterwards. Jonathan said one of the kid's dads at Colton's school was bald. So, Colton goes up to him and says, "hey, where did your hair go?".

More baby Luke pictures

Happy birthday Max!

Max turned 3 on October 17th!
He started his day with some delicious birthday cake pancakes.
He had lots of visitors too. Grandma, Geoff and Alayna were at our house so he got to hang out with them. His nursery teacher brought him a present. And his buddy, Alex, brought him a present and doughnuts! I wish I had a picture of them. Alex got Max a Nurf gun that they took turns shooting. They had so much fun playing together!
That night we ate some of max's favorite foods and had some Cars 2 cake. He had been looking at cakes for weeks before his birthday and was super excited about this one!
He got lots of awesome presents!
Max is such a funny little boy! My favorite thing he says is, "check it out," when he wants to show us something. He still loves his "paci" and "blanket". I still haven't had the heart to get rid of those. He and Colton, who he calls buddy, have a great time playing together. They can get super crazy!! He's so cute and funny and we love him to death!

In the last month my whole family has come and gone. It was so fun to have everyone here!
I hardly took any pictures. We made sugar cookies while Emily was here and that was, of course, a blast!

The kids

Kirsten and Colton always want to hold baby Luke. Max...not so much. This is the only picture I have of him holding him but he looks pretty happy.
Colton is always saying, "I want to hold he." One day he said he wanted to lay with he. Of course he wanted a picture an then he wanted Max to lay with baby too. This was as close as Max would get.